China has become accessible to the west in the last twenty years in a way that was not possible in the previous thirty. The number of westerners travelling to C

A reference guide to China presents its history as well as current information on its government, industry, art, and culture.

Featuring contributions from the world's most highly esteemed Asian philosophy scholars, this important new encyclopedia covers the complex and increasingly inf

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book presents the first translation into English of the full text of the Kaogong ji. This classic work, described by the great scholar of the history of Ch